I just want to have a rant here today. I am bored and slightly miffed at the number of people who knock British cooking without having tried it. ‘ The British eat boiled beef and jelly’ has become a very unoriginal statement .

The most popular phrase that I hear is ‘I went to Britain once and they gave me *******’ This then justifies their belief that all British people must therefore eat whatever it was. Sometimes I think someone has given them something as a joke. Other times they have tried a regional dish and applied it to the whole of Britain like pie and liquor in London. Or they have stayed with a family who eat nothing but junk food.

I am not saying that British food is fantastic but I think that people should at least try it before criticising it. The very… Read more